Anthropic 因盗版书籍支付 15 亿美元和解金，创下集体诉讼版权赔偿纪录

Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win

AI 导读

Anthropic 向图书作者支付 15 亿美元版权和解金，联邦法院已批准。约 482460 部作品中 91.3% 被索赔，每部约获 3000 美元。法官此前裁定，在合法获取的书籍上训练 AI 属于“变革性”合理使用，但大规模抓取网络内容是否合法仍悬而未决。

推荐理由

15亿美元的天价和解只针对盗版获取行为，法官此前已裁决合法图书训练AI属合理使用，这起案件反而成了AI实验室至今最大的法律背书。

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Anthropic has to pay book authors $1.5 billion in a copyright settlement. A federal court in San Francisco approved the settlement after Anthropic downloaded books from the piracy databases LibGen and PiLiMi between 2021 and 2022. Of roughly 482,460 listed works, 91.3 percent were claimed, netting about $3,000 each, four times the statutory minimum. Anthropic must destroy the pirated files. Authors retain claims over AI outputs that reproduce original works and over Anthropic's future conduct. It's the largest copyright settlement in class action history.

But the payout covers piracy, not AI training itself. Judge Alsup had previously ruled that training AI on legally obtained books is "transformative - spectacularly so" and falls under fair use. Whether mass scraping of internet content without authors' consent counts as legal acquisition remains an open question, so the fair use debate is likely far from over. Still, the ruling looks like a milestone for AI labs that trained on web content without website owners' consent, their main source of training data.

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